One response to “Two poems by Kurt Klopmeier”

These poems have done their job well: they disturb me. The imagery stuns me and fills me the sensory impact of the feelings of anger, loss, disgust, fear…Grendel is a humanitarian view of this monster and an explanation for the circumstances under which all of us could become the same. In this way, as disturbing as these poems are, they are also hopeful, for in understanding comes compassion, and through compassion comes love, and from love comes healing…